I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.